#choose

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession. ↗

— Martin Luther

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I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#director #i #look #movies #never

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. ↗

— Melvin Maddocks

#back #certain #choose #distractions #least

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#became #being #cases #child #child abuse

I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#between #choose #had #hard #how

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#everywhere #go #good #got #i

We are all, right now, living the life we choose. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#life #living #now #right

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? ↗

— Arthur Miller

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